After handling the affairs of the Tohsaka family, Ito Cheng's life became calm again. Every day he was either teaching Tohsaka Sakura about magic, or occasionally taking the time to visit Asakami Fujino, Kohaku, and Hisui, and give them some guidance.

, or take out some technical information that should be semi-future technology for the Xingyue world and sell it all over the world. While earning the world's power to accelerate the development process, he also earns an amazing amount of money that makes countless people jealous and want to kill him.

wealth.

In this way, time slowly passed by Ito Cheng's leisurely pace.

On May 4, 1992, Roja appeared in a suburban town in France and possessed a sixteen-year-old girl named Hierre. He was found and killed by Baiji Erquette who subsequently traced his aura.

die.

In June 1992, Shiki Tono was possessed by Roja, who was reincarnated again, and killed Shiki's consciousness. He controlled Shiki Tono's body and killed everyone except Akiha Tono who was in the Tono mansion at that time.

All relevant parties.

At this point, the Tono family, one of the four major exorcism families, has officially followed in the footsteps of the Asakami family and has completely declined. On the contrary, the Nanaya family, which was originally supposed to be exterminated by the Tono family in 1990, still survives because of Ito Shige's intervention.

He was intact, but he gradually left the circle of demon exorcists and concentrated on training Shiki, who is still named Nanaya.

Then in 1993 and 1994, the whole year was peaceful and peaceful, the world was at peace, and time quietly entered the year of 1995.

On this day, I was in a villa in Fuyuki City.

"Brother Cheng, that sister is awake." Accompanied by the sound of hurried footsteps, Sakura Tosaka, who was dressed in a junior high school uniform and had become a bit slimmer in appearance, ran down from the second floor of the villa and shouted urgently.

Ito Cheng, who was sitting in the living room playing with a puppet boredly, said.

"Huh?" After hearing Tohsaka Sakura's words, Ito's eyes immediately brightened. He quickly put down the doll in his hand and stood up from the sofa, walked quickly to the stairs, and climbed up to the second floor.

Soon we came to a neat room.

On the bed in the room, I saw a girl who looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old, with dark blue shoulder-length hair. She was completely naked and her eyes were blank.

Sitting on the bed, he was obviously unfamiliar with everything in front of him.

"ah!"

At this moment, Tohsaka Sakura let out a futile scream.

"Brother Cheng, get out quickly." Tohsaka Sakura stood in front of Ito Cheng with a red face, pushed his chest with both hands, and said urgently while pushing him out of the room.

"Uh..." Ito Cheng was shocked at first when he heard this. Then he shook his head with a wry smile and exited the room.

"Bang."

Then the door was closed tightly.

"Don't go in." Sakura Tohsaka glared at Ito Cheng with a small face.

"Yes, yes, I understand, little housekeeper." Ito Cheng said with a smile.

Hearing Ito Cheng's name, Tohsaka Sakura's face turned red. She wrinkled her nose and snorted, turned around and ran back to her own bedroom next to her. After more than two minutes, she took some women

He ran out of the room again, walked to the girl's room, opened the door and got in.

"Bang."

Then the door closed again.

After more than ten minutes, it opened again with a soft "click" sound.

"Brother Cheng, you can come in." Tohsaka Sakura said as she opened the door sideways to clear the passage.

Ito Cheng smiled, nodded, and walked into the room.

This time, the girl was finally no longer naked, but put on a pink silk one-piece nightgown, but probably because it didn't fit well, it wrapped her body a little tight,

Her well-developed figure was perfectly outlined. Her eyes were no longer blank, and she sat there silently with a gloomy expression.

"Hello, Hiyer." Ito Cheng greeted softly.

That's right, the girl's name is Hiyer, and it's not simply the same name as the Hiyer who was possessed by Roya and was killed by Arquette three years ago, but she is the one who should have died.

girl.

Because he remembered the time when the incident happened, Ito Cheng deliberately went to France a few days before the incident happened, and through some investigation and wandering, he found the appropriate location and found Hie, who was the daughter of the bakery owner at the time.

You, the possessed person, then stood around her, waiting for everything to happen.

Everything went smoothly before, but when Hiyer died and Ito Cheng was about to recover it, he encountered a lot of trouble.

The source of the trouble comes from the church, or rather the church's special institution - the burial agency.

The source of this trouble is very clear, it is Roja and Bai Ji Erquet who have been reincarnated. Because for the church, no matter which one they are, they are heretics that must be absolutely punished, let alone

It was said that the two appeared together, so when Erquette began to search for Roya shortly after arriving in France, the personnel of the burial agency also arrived in France, and with the support of the local church forces, they carried out the search for Erquet.

Quite launched all-round surveillance.

So it was natural that they discovered Roa, and Hiel who became an immortal because of Roa.

Needless to say, a battle broke out between the two sides. However, this gave Ito Cheng a chance to fish in troubled waters. Therefore, after some observation and waiting, Ito Cheng decisively placed a seal on the church and captured Hier.

At that moment, he launched a sneak attack, snatched Hiyer from the hands of the church, and left France overnight through the black market. After traveling to several countries with church personnel, he took Hiyer back to the stronghold of Fuyuki City.

, hiding Hiyer at home.

And this possession lasted for three long years, until today.

"Do you still remember what happened to you?" Ito Cheng then asked.

Hearing this, Hiyer's heart was shaken, and the scene of that night emerged in his mind involuntarily. He used all kinds of 'magic' that only existed in stories and legends like a superman, and met a woman as beautiful as

The elf-like woman was brutally killed. In the end, she was defeated and torn into pieces by the opponent's bloody claws. - Hiyer was very sure that in that case, she would definitely die.

But she still vaguely remembered that not long after that, she seemed to have come to life again. She fought with a group of guys wearing black clothes and carrying crosses on their chests, and was brutally killed by them several times...

Um. How many times?

Thinking of this, Hiyer subconsciously raised his head and looked at Ito Cheng in front of him.

"What happened to me?" Perhaps it was because of becoming an immortal. Hiyer's emotional system was severely suppressed, so it was clearly a question, but when she said it, it was even more like

The topic stated makes people feel a little weird.

"That's a long topic." Ito Cheng walked to the side, stretched out his hand to pull a chair to his side, sat down and said.

"Before I talk about what happened to you, I first want to tell you about the structure of this world. Sakura, please listen to it too." Ito Cheng's eyes turned on Hier and Tohsaka Sakura.

"Okay." Tohsaka Sakura nodded in agreement, then walked to Hiyer's bed and sat down, pretending to listen.

"There are two sides to this world: the outside and the inside. The outside refers to the society we live in now. An ordinary society built by ordinary people, governments, and companies with recognized moral and legal orders. The inside refers to those extraordinary

A small circle composed of humans and non-human beings. The two are interdependent and independent of each other.”

"For example, I am a magician, but in society, I am a free citizen and control wealth."

"Magician?" Hiyer asked.

"Magicians. A group of people who use mysterious means to create miracles." Ito Cheng explained. And in order to let Hillier have a more intuitive concept, Ito Cheng also showed some of the magic tricks to Hillier later with Sakura Tohsaka.

Magic means.

"It's amazing, isn't it?" Ito Cheng smiled.

Hier looked at Ito Cheng and Tohsaka Sakura and nodded slightly.

"But in the society called [Li], magicians are just one of the individuals. There are also clergy, vampires with the professional title of [Dead Apostles], and a race of non-human beings with ghosts, monsters, etc.

People with superpowers, legendary elves, monsters, ghosts, etc., in short, many groups exist. And like countries, various companies and individuals in table society, they also have hostile and alliance relationships with each other.

, complex anomalies. It will take a long time to completely understand these, so we will talk about these later."

Hiyer nodded, expressing understanding.

"Now let's get back to the topic, let's talk about what happened to you." Ito Cheng said seriously.

"You are already dead." Ito Cheng looked directly into Hiyer's eyes and said softly.

"Ah!" As soon as these words came out, Hier was fine. Tohsaka Sakura on the side subconsciously exclaimed, but then she noticed that this was a bit impolite, and she stuck out her tongue to Ito Cheng in embarrassment.

, and became quiet again.

"Then why am I still alive now?" Hiyer accepted the fact that he was dead surprisingly calmly, and then asked quietly.

"Because of Roja." Ito Cheng said.

"Roja was born in the Middle Ages. He was originally a devout believer. He joined the local church when he was in his twenties and received the attention of the church's high-level officials for his outstanding performance. It was he who proposed the idea of ​​building a burial institution.

It is a special organization that nominally belongs to the church, but is independent from the church and possesses powerful inhuman power. It is the first generation leader of the burial agency."

"The original purpose of the Burial Agency is to defeat people such as Dead Apostles, witches, monsters, and magicians who are regarded as heretics by the church. They especially attach great importance to the crusade of Death Apostles. For this reason, they do not hesitate to study the Death Apostles' secrets.

Strength, and use the research results to transform themselves to obtain powerful strength to enhance combat effectiveness. The leader among them is also Roja, who is the leader of the burial agency."

"Probably because he studied too deeply, Roja became obsessed with research on immortality and immortality, and in the end completely transformed himself into an inhuman creature with the power of reincarnation!"

"And you are his seventeenth reincarnation. And for some unknown reason, you acquired the concept of 'immortality' from him and became an immortal. This is why I say you are dead.

You are dead, but you are still alive and well, and you sit here and listen to me tell the real reason for everything." Ito Cheng finally said.

"...In my memory, there is a blond woman and several people wearing black clothes with crosses. Who are they?" After a moment of silence, Hiyer asked again.

"That woman... Her name is Erquit Brunstadt, and she is a vampire. But it is different from the general term for [Dead Apostles]. She is a real vampire, the crystallization of nature.
To be continued...